Publisher's Synopsis
These authors combine their introductory management teaching experience in this text. Streamlined and specialized to allow full coverage in a single term, this work sets out to provide a sound foundation for understanding key management issues. It maintains a fundamental focus and reaches the latest research studies in the field, and prepares students for the management roles of the future, with emphasis on organizational behaviour and culture, entrepreneurship and small business, quality management and globalization. This work is appropriate for introductory courses in principles of management, management and organizational behaviour, and introduction to administration/management.